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« Reply #30 on: September 16, 2013, 21:01:26 »
Quote from: grahame on September 16, 2013, 20:33:11
... and I can certainly envisage some Saturday or Sunday outings next year to the Cross Guns or the cafe across the canal from there. 

Did someone mention a trip to a pub by train?  http://www.crossguns.net/  I'd be up for that!  Grin

Could I also echo grahame's comments?  This forum is what it is because of the people who post on it.  Everyone brings a different perspective to the conversations with experiences from life and varying expert contributions from those who work within the industry.  Us mere admins/moderators just keep the wheels turning occasionally.
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« Reply #31 on: September 17, 2013, 03:35:04 »
Did somebody mention "Drink!"?

I'll get my coat...
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« Reply #32 on: September 17, 2013, 17:53:27 »
Quote from: grahame on September 16, 2013, 20:33:11
... It may have become a compuslory sop ...

That may have been typed after grahame had enjoyed a couple of pints of the excellent real ales available in the Cross Guns ...  Wink Cheesy Grin
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« Reply #33 on: September 24, 2013, 18:49:09 »
It's interesting to see how a delay can percollate through the network ... I'm sat in a train for Manchester from Paignton, and it's all due to problems in the Avoncliff and Freshford area, as you might guess ;-)

The 14:33 and 14:50 from B-o-A were cancelled, and the 15:03 gradually got later ... then went off the board ... they appeared in real life and left at 15:18.  It dawdled at Bradford-on-Avon, pulling up and stopping twice, and they took a leisurely meander to Freshford, left at 15:30 - I make that 21 minutes late.  Once past Dundas it ran faster, and we got into Temple Meads at 15:54 ... still some 20 late, and I was just in time to catch a punctually-departing Manchester train.

We crept through Stapleton Road; we nearly stopped at Filton Abbey Wood; we had time to admire the station at Yate, and we crawled though Cam and Dursley ... we're still 17 minutes down approaching Stockport.  And the holdup?   The dawdle in the Avon Valley put that local late, and it was preoceeding ahead of us all the way to Gloucester.

I have just overheard the train manager helping a lady who's got a connection at Piccadilly.  Seems that's going to miss and so the ripples of the delay on a line the lady's probably never ever heard of spread.
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« Reply #34 on: December 07, 2022, 08:18:09 »
Reports of overcrowded trains missing out Avoncliff (but still calling at Freshford, where VIPs live  Cheesy ) and of leaving passengers behind at Bradford-on-Avon because they can't get onto the train.  Also reports that the 5 car standard schedule is to be dropped when extra MetroWest services start next May.  "Usually reliable sources".
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